Splore Festival, about an hour’s drive from Auckland is set on Tapapakanga National Park. To one side of the main stage is the beach and on the other a gentle slope that makes for a natural amphitheatre. We arrived on site on Friday evening to catch Erykah Badu’s set – her performance was spot-on mixing in new material with reworked classics from her Baduizm and Mama’s Gun albums.
By the time it was our slot at 9pm on saturday evening, the crowd were really ready to party as we certainly were! We hope everyone enjoyed the show as much as we did as we were faced with a sea of smiling faces – we’d prepared some numbers from our forthcoming album so it was great to finally play them out!
Thank you to John, Amanda, Helen, Kris, JJ, Duane… and the whole Splore team for a great festival. Shout out also to Africa Hitech, DJ Qbert, Hudson Mohawke and Shortee Blitz for the good times!
The wonderful Splore site looking onto the main stage
